DECISION MAKING AND DISPLAY METHODS: THE CASE OF PRESCRIPTION AND PRACTICE IN CAPITAL BUDGETING

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• DORLA A. EVANS is Associate Professor of Finance at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. Her primary research interest is the application of the principles of behavioral finance and experimental methods to investment and corporate finance decisions. She is currently working on a National Science Foundation grant to study the effects of market discipline on violations of expected utility theory.
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• SHAWN M. FORBES is Associate Professor of Finance at Georgia Southern University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. He has published several articles about the prime rate and is pursuing a research interest in behavioral finance
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